Blog

20 September 2017
Air lines

13 September 2017
Making a simple dashboard for our discovery

10 August 2017
A sense of doing something

30 July 2017
Weeknotes s02e04

21 July 2017
Weeknotes s02e03

18 July 2017
Public Design WY number 3 is done

17 July 2017
The shed has become a workshop

16 July 2017
Weeknotes s02e01 and s02e02

20 June 2017
It's only words: the carelessness of a supermarket’s self service checkout user interface

14 June 2017
Public Design WY number 2 is done

25 May 2017
Camp Digital 2017 slides

20 May 2017
May 2017 Bradford CoderDojo

19 May 2017
Is your minimum viable product viable?

18 May 2017
Accidental slogans

13 May 2017
The usefulness of design patterns

12 May 2017
Butlins wifi and not stating the terms of your transaction

5 May 2017
Public Design WY number 1 is done

12 April 2017
Design, Make, Learn and 'digital socialism' stickers

12 April 2017
Public Design WY number 1 is go

10 April 2017
Listening, not hearing

7 April 2017
Being in the same room

23 March 2017
The cost of sitting versus the cost of standing

11 March 2017
Public Design WY

7 March 2017
Weeknotes s01e18

24 February 2017
A Slackbot over a coffee

19 February 2017
The Design Museum

19 February 2017
Week ending Sunday 19 February 2017

29 January 2017
Weeknotes s01e13

20 January 2017
It’s the mission that matters

20 January 2017
Weeknotes s01e12

13 January 2017
Weeknotes s01e11

6 January 2017
Weeknotes s01e08, s01e09, and s01e10

5 January 2017
Bradford CoderDojo – back for 2017

4 January 2017
Days out looking sideways

17 December 2016
Weeknotes s01e07

5 December 2016
Weeknotes s01e05

26 November 2016
Weeknotes s01e04

23 November 2016
Look sideways more

22 November 2016
Mentor offer redux

18 November 2016
Weeknotes s01e03

12 November 2016
Weeknotes s01e02

8 November 2016
Patterns, patterns

5 November 2016
Weeknotes s01e01

18 October 2016
I do this stickers

4 October 2016
Fight snub

16 September 2016
Getting people together

9 September 2016
My problem with “digital transformation”

28 August 2016
People are not crows

18 August 2016
That’s not my home phone number, the area dial code is all wrong - Or, how I suddenly lost trust in my bank

25 June 2016
What is it I actually do?

13 June 2016
Typography, an example to learn from

12 June 2016
USDS values

30 May 2016
number number dash number number dash

25 May 2016
It’s how you display it

23 May 2016
Stickers as a thank you

30 April 2016
HMRC-ya

28 April 2016
Keeping things on track

26 April 2016
Mentor offer

24 April 2016
Knowing what to expect

23 April 2016
A simpler, clearer, better bradford.gov.uk

14 April 2016
Always be in beta posters

13 April 2016
Some new stickers

11 April 2016
Start at the core

3 April 2016
Sunday design stuff in New York

2 April 2016
Visit to Cooper Hewitt in New York

22 March 2016
Getting stuff done (in gov)

2 March 2016
Invisible Chinatown

26 February 2016
Codegirl at the Co-op

16 February 2016
Digital transformation is change management

12 February 2016
Rail travel: A user experience in buying access to a network

10 February 2016
What... what seems to be the problem?

9 February 2016
Collaborating across government design communities

9 February 2016
Never be the same

2 February 2016
Good times for a change

14 January 2016
Design is the process, and when designing works

11 January 2016
Us versus them

6 January 2016
Motivations

3 January 2016
Lowering your shields

30 December 2015
Coffee and toast

22 December 2015
Be more start-up

20 December 2015
It looks like a frozen sausage

19 December 2015
Blood simple

7 December 2015
Get Git

3 December 2015
Show all the options, AirBnB style

27 November 2015
Teachings from user research sessions

26 November 2015
Forefront, Leeds, 25 November 2015

17 November 2015
Designing stickers – or: Getting out a bit more

6 November 2015
Why the Bronx Burned, a cautionary tale on bad data usage

5 November 2015
Lisa Hanawalt at XOXO 2015

2 November 2015
Openly talking across government, about design

28 October 2015
The World of Ray and Charles Eames

24 October 2015
Talking about the design work we do in HMRC Digital

19 October 2015
Doing research with users to understand gifts

17 October 2015
Contracting problems

17 October 2015
Tom Loosemore on new foundations for government

16 October 2015
Mis-shapes

15 October 2015
A quick note on *asterisks* and [square brackets]

13 October 2015
Reading list

13 October 2015
The lost art of copywriting

29 September 2015
GDS as a platform

27 September 2015
Plain speaking

26 September 2015
September 2015 Bradford CoderDojo

25 September 2015
Some short notes about show and tells at HMRC Digital

20 September 2015
The planets – to scale

14 September 2015
Design is teamwork

12 September 2015
Beverly Hills Cop intro credits

5 September 2015
Saul Bass pitching to Bell

27 August 2015
A happy ending

9 August 2015
Thunk.

6 August 2015
HMRC: nearly three weeks up

13 July 2015
Games are fun for everyone. (But not all games are fun at all.)

12 July 2015
The last Bradford CoderDojo of the 2014/15 academic year

7 July 2015
How Spotify does agile

6 July 2015
Going off

29 June 2015
View your local Scores on the Doors

25 June 2015
Bradford District STEM networking event, June 2015

24 June 2015
Better when relevant: improving the Hang My Washing Out tool

24 June 2015
How I learnt to code

22 June 2015
Bradford Coder Dojo June 2015: Tasty Pi!

22 June 2015
Introducing Shipley's Code Cafe

22 June 2015
Look up your Amazon wishlist in a local library

19 June 2015
A short note about prototyping

15 June 2015
Look up Amazon bestsellers in the Leeds/Bradford library system

13 June 2015
Leeds GovJam 2015: in just three points

9 June 2015
Looking ahead to Leeds GovJam 2015

3 June 2015
Exploring the lives of "older people" through the Age Camp unconference

31 May 2015
May 2015 NUX Leeds notes

11 May 2015
Pitches: I love to hate you (but love a good workshop)

9 May 2015
Doing my own thing: nearly one year on

1 May 2015
The future could be ace, but we still need to think of IE8

20 April 2015
Why volunteer?

10 April 2015
Scorsese on story versus plot

1 April 2015
Getting Hyperlocal with young people in Leeds

28 November 2014
You say persona, I say person-ah

22 November 2014
David Chang and deliciousness

15 August 2014
Opening the Leeds School of Data

12 August 2014
Hacking together a data masher

21 July 2014
Weathering a two hour hack

19 July 2014
Try something new to something already there

30 June 2014
Open data in Leeds: represented by just three organisations?

20 June 2014
The return of the Leeds digital lunches

17 June 2014
mhLeeds workshop

14 June 2014
The 'public spaces' of Bradford and Leeds

12 June 2014
Bettakultcha Leeds June 2014

5 June 2014
Leeds GovJam 2014

29 May 2014
A website within a service

22 May 2014
Odd spaces

15 May 2014
Briefs and work: Inspire. Inspiring. Inspirational.

1 May 2014
A dog: one year on

17 April 2014
Brand guidelines as guides

3 April 2014
Because Robert Redford

20 March 2014
Next

7 March 2014
Let go.

24 February 2014
"Look at this from a user experience point of view"

22 February 2014
Responsive design work: not that new is it?

21 February 2014
The inveitable Whatsapp post

19 February 2014
Defined work. Speculative work.

18 February 2014
Rational Irrational

15 February 2014
Reach out, with your government

14 February 2014
My spring 2014 student deck

9 February 2014
Not-so-infinite scroll

25 January 2014
The problem with crowd sourcing

15 January 2014
The brains behind spending a $25,000 marketing budget in a creative way

7 January 2014
Overlooking interactions

5 January 2014
I miss journalism

2 January 2014
Cicada 3301

1 January 2014
A stickier internet